{"id":2012,"date":"2020-02-27T09:31:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T09:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finearts.hku.hk\/dev-finearts3\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=2012"},"modified":"2020-06-22T09:56:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T09:56:52","slug":"preventive-publics-the-burning-car-in-thomas-hirschhorns-installations","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/event\/preventive-publics-the-burning-car-in-thomas-hirschhorns-installations\/","title":{"rendered":"Preventive Publics: The Burning Car in Thomas Hirschhorn\u2019s Installations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Preventive Publics: The Burning Car in Thomas Hirschhorn\u2019s Installations<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Date: 21 March 2017 (Tuesday)\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Time: 5:00-6:30pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Venue: Room 4.04, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus<\/strong><\/p>\n<article id=\"post-4383\" class=\"post-4383 fa_events type-fa_events status-publish hentry fa_event_type-event-staff\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"additional_information\">\n<p>This talk unpacks issues of publicity and the public sphere in the oeuvre of Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn, whose practiceh as been controversial for its construction of temporary \u201ccultural centers\u201d in lowerincome, immigrant-populated suburbs in Europe. What are the ethics behind these neighborhood installations? On a most basic level, his socially oriented pieces work to highlight the violence behind signifiers in the mass media such as the burning car clip, a reductive image that has served to stigmatize and incite fears against \u201cforeigners\u201d on the continent. More critically, these installations model and instantiate <em>preventive publics<\/em>, a term I employ in order to signal not only their bringing together of diverse strangers, but also their calling for longer-term, self-organized, and non-exclusionary relations among such strangers in order to prevent violence in the larger public domain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\"><\/footer>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"post-4403\" class=\"post-4403 fa_events type-fa_events status-publish hentry fa_event_type-event-staff\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<\/article>\n<p><strong>Speaker: Brianne Cohen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brianne Cohen is a visiting assistant professor of contemporary art history at Brown University. Her PhD dissertation <em>Contested Collectivities: Europe Reimagined by Contemporary Artists<\/em> (University of Pittsburgh: 2012) is the basis for her current book project <em>Preventive Publics: Contemporary Art and the Idea of Europe<\/em>. Her research has appeared in print in <em>Third Text<\/em> and other journals, and she has co-edited issues of <em>Images [&amp;] Narrative<\/em> and a collection of scholarly essays entitled <em>The Photofilmic: Entangled Images in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture<\/em> (Leuven: 2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preventive Publics: The Burning Car in Thomas Hirschhorn\u2019s Installations Date: 21 March 2017 (Tuesday)\u00a0 Time: 5:00-6:30pm Venue: Room 4.04, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus This talk unpacks issues of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2013,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[183],"tribe_events_cat":[17],"class_list":["post-2012","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-visitingscholar","tribe_events_cat-seminars","cat_seminars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2363,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2012\/revisions\/2363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}